Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.